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  Thackeray's Shiv Sena stakes claim to LoP post in Maharashtra assembly, nominates this senior MLA

  Maharashtra | March 04, 2025 20:40 IST

  As per precedents, an opposition party needs 10 per cent of the total seats (which comes to 28) to stake claim to the LoP post in the 288-member assembly.

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  DK Shivakumar, Shashi Tharoor bat for Rahul Gandhi as Parliament to get LoP after 10 years

  India | June 07, 2024 20:20 IST

  The post of the Leader of Opposition is vacant for past 10 years as all the opposition parties lacked to fulfil the criteria required. As Congress has got the numbers to make LoP, leaders are pitching for the Gandhi scion.

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  Lok Sabha Speaker rejects Congress' demand for LoP post

  Politics | August 19, 2014 23:24 IST

  New Delhi: The Congress demand for being accorded the status of Leader of Opposition to its group chief in Lok Sabha was on Tuesday rejected by Speaker Sumitra Mahajan."I have gone by rules and tradition,"

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  No signal on granting Leader of Opposition post to Congress

  Politics | July 03, 2014 22:50 IST

  New Delhi: Amid no signal so far on granting of Leader of the Opposition post to Congress, its leader in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge met Speaker Sumitra Mahajan today.Congress Chief whip Jyotiraditya Scindia as also